Re: [PATCH v2] upload-pack.c: use of parse-options API

> Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > Antoine.Queru@ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr wrote:
> >> come from the commit (gmane/131517)
> >
> > Please, use a real commit id instead of a Gmane link.
> >
> > We don't know how long Gmane will remain up, but a self
> > reference from Git's history to itself will always remain valid.
> >
> > The following alias is handy for this:
> >
> > [alias]
> >         whatis = show -s --pretty='tformat:%h (%s, %ad)' --date=short
> >
> > In your case it would allow writing:
> >
> > Description for --stateless-rpc and --advertise-refs is taken
> > from commit 42526b4 (Add stateless RPC options to upload-pack,
> > receive-pack, 2009-10-30).
> 
> Good suggestion; a real question may be how you went from
> $gmane/131517 to 42526b4 (I vaguely recall that you have and publish
> a database of sort; this would be a good place to advertise it ;-).